What does novercal mean?
Novercal means (dated) Of or pertaining to a stepmother..
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/nəʊˈvɜː(ɹ)kəl/ · adjective
(dated) Of or pertaining to a stepmother..
when almost the whole tribe of birds do thus, by incubation, produce their young , it is a wonderful deviation , that some few families only ſhould do it in a more novercal way
Guido's old lady-mother Beatrice, / Who since her husband, Count Tommaso's death, / Had held sole sway i' the house,—the doited crone / Slow to acknowledge, curtsey and abdicate,— / Was recognized of true novercal type, / Dragon and devil.
Use novercal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Novercal means (dated) Of or pertaining to a stepmother..
Common synonyms include stepmotherly.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
when almost the whole tribe of birds do thus, by incubation, produce their young , it is a wonderful deviation , that some few families only ſhould do it in a more novercal way
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